A slow day at the FBI

This week the inspector general of the Justice Department issued a report about FBI surveillance of several groups, including Greenpeace and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The report concluded that none of the groups was investigated by the FBI simply because of their opinions, but in some cases it found fault with the duration of investigations and the tenuous connection to suspected criminal or terrorist activity.

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Probe discovers U.S. court misconduct

Orlando, Fla. — The jurors who helped put Antonino Lyons in jail for three years had every reason to think that he was a drug trafficker, and, until July, no reason to doubt that justice had been done.

For more than a week in 2001, the jurors listened to one witness after another, almost all of them prison inmates, describe how Lyons had sold them packages of cocaine. One said that Lyons, who ran clothing shops and nightclubs around Orlando, tried to hire him to kill two drug dealers.

But the federal prosecutors handling the case did not let the jury hear all the facts.

Instead, the prosecutors covered up evidence that could have discredited many of Lyons' accusers. They never disclosed that a convict who claimed to have purchased hundreds of pounds of cocaine from Lyons struggled to identify his photograph. And they hid the fact that prosecutors had promised to let others out of prison early in exchange for their cooperation.

Federal prosecutors are supposed to seek justice, not merely score convictions. But a USA Today investigation found that prosecutors have repeatedly violated that duty in courtrooms across the country

FBI agent indicted after threatening top official

The FBI agent accused of making death threats against his estranged wife and the head of the Dallas FBI office has been indicted.

Vast firearms collection listed in indictment of former Dallas FBI agent accused of murder plot

Paid for by your tax dime. This makes you a co-enabler.

Former FBI man implicated in CIA abuse

WASHINGTON — A former CIA officer accused of revving an electric drill near the head of an imprisoned terror suspect has returned to U.S. intelligence as a contractor, training CIA operatives after leaving the agency, The Associated Press has learned.

The CIA officer wielded the bitless drill and an unloaded handgun - unauthorized interrogation techniques - to menace suspected USS Cole bombing plotter Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri inside a secret CIA prison in Poland in late 2002 and early 2003, according to several former intelligence officials and a review by the CIA's inspector general.

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In the spring of 2001 we brought Daryl Cherney to speak at our conference investigating crimes committed by the FBI crime family.
We believe a FBI Death Squad was behind the bombing of Judy Bari's
car.
When you are the law enforcement agency investigating the crime you just committed you can almost always get away with the crime.

Darryl Cherney wants FBI to hand over evidence

(09-08) 2010 SAN FRANCISCO -- It's an infamous case that never seems to go away, even after millions of dollars have been paid out in civil settlements and police say the trail has gone cold.

The case is the 1990 bombing in Oakland of Earth First environmental activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney, who were nearly killed when a nail-studded explosive device blew up in their car.

Nobody was ever charged with the attack, and now, two decades later, the FBI wants to destroy the last bits of evidence it has been storing ever since the investigation dribbled dry - remnants of the bomb and one like it that blew up in a North Bay town a few days earlier.

Not so fast, says Cherney, 54, who has never given up trying to solve the case himself.

Saying in court briefs that the evidence "provides the last best hope for learning who bombed Judi Bari," Cherney and his lawyers were in federal court Wednesday in San Francisco to try to force the FBI to turn the evidence over to them so they can run DNA and other tests on it.

NSA is the Enron of the intelligence community.~Jesselyn Radack

A Declaration of War on the American People.

What do you think the Military Commissions Act was? The new FISA laws? The Patriot Act? Faith-based voting machines? Eliminating Posse Comitatus? The Federal Reserve Act? Media consolidation? Eliminating the Fairness Doctrine? Ending net neutrality? Lowering the top marginal tax rates on millionaires? The Commodity Futures Modernization Act? Gramm, Leach, Bliley? NAFTA? China Trade?

You didn't think I was talking about 350 dirt-poor Muslims living in the mountains on the other side of the planet, did you?

Buddy, you're the one in their crosshairs.

The only real war is the one never mentioned, Class War.